Short Telomeres are Sufficient to Cause the Degenerative Defects Associated with Aging

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 85, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 823-832

  Armanios, Mary ^a   Alder, Jonathan K ^a   Parry, Erin M ^a   Karim, Baktiar ^a   Strong, Margaret A ^a   Greider, Carol W ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TELOMERASE;

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APLASTIC ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BONE MARROW DEPRESSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPENIA; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DYSKERATOSIS CONGENITA; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE; TELOMERE; WILD TYPE;

AGING; ANIMALS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; CROSSES, GENETIC; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DYSKERATOSIS CONGENITA; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TELOMERASE; TELOMERE;

MUS;

EID: 71149086939     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2009.10.028     Document Type: Article

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